Paperback. Minimal wear on cover Making It on Broadway goes beyond the glitz and the glamour to show what really happens both on a Broadway stage and in the personal lives of Broadway actors. In their own words, Jason Alexander, Terrence Mann, Donna Murphy, Lea Salonga, and more than 150 of today's Broadway performers — including fifty-five Tony Award® winners and nominees— talk candidly about living and working in the new era of the mega-musical. From first setting foot in New York City with only a suitcase and a dream, to stepping up to the podium and accepting a Tony Award®, the actors in this book discuss all aspects of their lives and careers — no matter how controversial. Whether it's paying the rent, maintaning a family, performing eight times a week, or dealing with the "Disneyfication" of Broadway, the contributors to this book handle it all in the same way: with frankness and humor.